Jungle By- Ways in India 



tion to see the stag disappearing into the forest. 

 On all sides the grass was in a seething commotion 

 sambhar, all does with a couple of young stags ; 

 spotted deer, and a few barasingha does, had all 

 been feeding together in a little patch of grass not 

 more than 50 by 70 yards square in area. 



Keep your best look out for monkeys when 

 stalking, and if they go one way in a forest, take 

 you the opposite direction if you wish to get any 

 sport. 



THE MONKEYS' PANCHAYIT 



I was out early one morning in April strolling 

 quietly along a wide forest line with the high hopes 

 (how often do they remain hopes only !) that at 

 last my lucky star was in the ascendant, and that 

 I was going to get that record sambhar or chitul 

 for which so many of us live and hope and long 

 for. Hope long deferred maketh the heart sick, 

 said the poet or the preacher which was it ? It 

 may be so, but I don't think the poet could have 

 been a shikari man, or he would never have 

 written that, for the hopes of that ''record" to 

 many of us are very long deferred, and may be 

 so prolonged that we find ourselves within measur- 

 able distance of that genteel poverty in the shape 

 of a pension of a pound a day with which a muni- 

 ficent and paternal Government rewards many 

 years' long and arduous service in this glorious 

 Land of the East. Land of the aforetime Nabob 



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